GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |